Re: New Technical Issues RE: WG last call in progress on VLAN/Priority Draft

[Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>]

It seems to me that what's wrong with the attribute is not so much
whether it should be called integer or string, but that it is a
misuse (or clever hack) of the tag field to have semantic value.

That's clear from the allowed values of the first octet, 0x31 or
0x32.  So far as I'm aware, tags have only been used for grouping
and ordering of attribute sets.  Here, what is manifestly
a tag field is being used to communicate a 1-bit flag value.

I don't even believe that the clever hack will work well, because it
will allow undefined values (0x32 etc) to escape detection and
it will make the human-readable form of the attribute look misleading.

Barney

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